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I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles ov

by m0dest 6y ago

I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content. I frankly wasn't really interested in Reddit until the redesign.

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solidasparagus 6y ago
Oh my god I hate the redesign. Not the concept of it, but the execution. The stacked modals so that less than 1/3 of your screen is used for content. The laughably terrible performance and failure rate when loading comments that don't show on the main thread page. The fact that comments more than 3-4 layers deep can't be expanded on the same page and to see them you have to go to a different page. And when you do that, it saves your vertical scroll position so that they jump you past all the contents you were trying to look at, to where the 'related posts' are. Like honestly how hard is it to build a UI where the comment tree expands in-place? I honestly think it's the worst engineered site on the internet that operates with that scale of users.
- AdmiralGinge 6y ago
  The whole component simply known as "the comments" is terrible, my only theory is that someone is paying them to destructively test mice through needless clicks.
  - solidasparagus 6y ago
    My theory is that they are struggling to monetize a website that is extremely expensive to run and the engineering team is either too small or is forced to spend all of their time trying to develop monetization features.
    - entropie 6y ago
      Are there numbers about the money the make? I think gold brings quite a lot. But otherwise I think (and fear) reddit might be a great influencing tool if done correctly.
modo_mario 6y ago
> give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content How so? I don't see what changed on that front.

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I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles ov

by m0dest 6y ago

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solidasparagus 6y ago
Oh my god I hate the redesign. Not the concept of it, but the execution. The stacked modals so that less than 1/3 of your screen is used for content. The laughably terrible performance and failure rate when loading comments that don't show on the main thread page. The fact that comments more than 3-4 layers deep can't be expanded on the same page and to see them you have to go to a different page. And when you do that, it saves your vertical scroll position so that they jump you past all the contents you were trying to look at, to where the 'related posts' are. Like honestly how hard is it to build a UI where the comment tree expands in-place? I honestly think it's the worst engineered site on the internet that operates with that scale of users.
- AdmiralGinge 6y ago
  The whole component simply known as "the comments" is terrible, my only theory is that someone is paying them to destructively test mice through needless clicks.
  - solidasparagus 6y ago
    My theory is that they are struggling to monetize a website that is extremely expensive to run and the engineering team is either too small or is forced to spend all of their time trying to develop monetization features.
    - entropie 6y ago
      Are there numbers about the money the make? I think gold brings quite a lot. But otherwise I think (and fear) reddit might be a great influencing tool if done correctly.
modo_mario 6y ago
> give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content How so? I don't see what changed on that front.